Ammunition
2013; University of Iowa; Volume: 43; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.17077/0021-065x.7286
ISSN2330-0361
Autores Tópico(s)Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
ResumoThere's a bullet with my name on it.My father keeps it in the top drawer of his desk.A strip of masking tape along one side reads snider, printed in his neat all-caps script.There are more bullets in his old army trunk, some in clear plastic collector tubes, others in tiny paper boxes.They are stashed between family photos, a Japanese bayonet, books about Vietnam, old army bulletins, and a half-empty bottle of Brut cologne.My father has collected Snider bullets from eBay and gun shows across the country, scores of small, unremarkable bullets made for the .577British Snider-Enfield rifle, a type of breech-loading rifle invented in 1866 by the American Jacob Snider.No record exists that Jacob Snider is related to our family, but he spelled his name "Snider" instead of the more common American spelling, "Snyder."I not y: proof enough, my father insists, that he's blood.• My father collects mostly antique pistols and rifles, military models from WWI, WWII, and the American Civil War.He owns a Pattern 1914, a 30.06M1 Garand, several Japanese Arisakas (including one 6.5 with its original leather strap), and an 8 millimeter German Mauser.He'll describe at length the wood-grained stock of the Remington Model Seven or the nickel finish on the .38Super Springfield.He carefully cleans each one, wiping it down with Hoppe's No. 9 Solvent and Remington Oil, holding it to the light so it gleams.He loves the details, spending hours researching, cleaning, and displaying.When I visit, he takes his new ones off the walls: Look at the hexagonal barrel on this one, he says, or: This one has detachable box magazines.He looks at them the way I might a line by Keats.Of all my father's guns, his most prized are three Civil War-era Snider-Enfields, purchased for me and my two younger brothers.They hang on the wall of his den over a black metal filing cabinet, neatly arranged, one on top of the other.We'll get them when he's dead.• A young man named Chip Davidson served with my father in Vietnam.Chip was from Kokomo, Indiana, the only other Hoosier in their platoon.One night, under fire from the enemy, he and Chip took cover in a grove
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